User Guide

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0

User Guide

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Tonal Range Specifies whether the luminance adjustments are applied to the entire image (Master), the highlights

only, midtones only, or shadows only.

Brightness Adjusts the black level in a clip. Use this control so that the black picture content in your clip appears as

black.

Contrast Affects the image’s contrast by adjusting the gain from the clip’s original contrast value.

Contrast Level Sets the clip’s original contrast value.

Gamma Adjusts the image’s midtone values without affecting black and white levels. This causes changes in contrast,

much like changing the shape the curve in the Luma Curve effect. Use this control to adjust images that are too dark

or too light, without distorting shadows and highlights.

Pedestal Adjusts an image by adding a fixed offset to the image’s pixel values. Use this control with the Gain control

to increase an image’s overall brightness.

Gain Affects the overall contrast ratio of an image by adjusting brightness values by multiplication. The lighter pixels

are affected more than darker pixels.

Secondary Color Correction Specifiesthecolorrangetobecorrectedbytheeffect.Youcandefinethecolorbyhue,

saturation, and luminance. Click the triangle to access the controls.

Note: Choose Mask from the Output menu to view the areas of the image that are selected as you define the color range.

Center Defines the central color in the range that you’re specifying. Select the Eyedropper tool and click anywhere

on your screen to specify a color, which is displayed in the color swatch. Use the + Eyedropper tool to extend the

color range, and use the – Eyedropper tool to subtract from the color range. You can also click the swatch to open

the Adobe Color Picker and select the center color.

Hue, Saturation, and Luma Specify the color range to be corrected by hue, saturation, or luminance. Click the

triangle next to the option name to access the threshold and softness (feathering) controls to define the hue,

saturation, or luminance range.

Soften Makes boundaries of the specified area more diffuse, blending the correction more with the original image.

A higher value makes the increases the softness.

Edge Thinning Makes the specified area more sharply defined. The correction becomes more pronounced. A higher

value increases the edge definition of the specified area.

Invert Limit Color Corrects all colors except for the color range that you specified with the Secondary Color

Correction settings.